Yesterday I posted this thread in the debian-mentors list: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:26:30PM +0200, nidr wrote: > Perhaps you guys have seen some of my other threads over at debian-boot. > They are all related to tasksel, as am trying to add my own tasks for > personally use. Am grateful for all the help I have got with tasksel so far. > But there is still something I do not understand: > > You see I've been trying to make my own deb out of the tasksel 2.24 source. > So I've managed to build a working deb with the dpkg-buildpackage command, > but later I found out that I needed to do some more modifications: > When I run the dpkg-buildpackage command, the system make this folder > ./debian/tasksel/usr/lib/tasksel/packages > But this folder has no items inside. So I want to add my package-list item > into this folder, so my owm packages list is there, "inside" the deb. How > can I make so the dpkg-buildpackage will move my list program to that > folder? > I've tried to read some documention about debian/rules, but still I can't > manage to do what I want to. Hope someone could help me here.
So I thought I should post the question here, since I guess you guys know tasksel very well. Please tell me if I should go back to debian-mentors and ask there.
On debian-mentors I was told to do this:
> Basically, you can place your file somewhere in > the debian/ directory. Then after the call to dh_installdirs (I think) > you can use a simple mv command to move your file to the desired > destination.
Now I've tried that, and it did not work.
Under the compilation of the deb
(using dpkg-buildpackage) I get this error message:
test: test-list is not a valid package
This error is printed before the debian/rules tells the system to move my test-list to debian/tasksel/usr/lib/tasksel/packages. But it should be moved there before the list check, shouldn't it? How can I do so?
-Thank you for any input.